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Activity for trichoplax
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #289262 |
Sounds good if they work, but they might be an invitation to find unscrupulous workarounds. Also, how small would they have to be to eliminate the possibility of malicious edits? A four letter word plus a space is a 5 character edit.
I wonder if we would be better with "human guardrails": We could... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289262 |
I wouldn't expect it to be a concern to the original author. The problem is that anyone can be an original author. This change would give anyone the ability to make a post, wait until it drops off the front page, and then edit it to say something the community would have flagged had it not been kept ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289239 |
I raised that a blank line is necessary in `<details>` sections previously, and it turns out that's necessary whenever mixing HTML and Markdown, as [explained in an answer there](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287279/287284#answer-287284). (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
Would that only apply while the previous flag is still pending? I'm imagining seeing no previous flag content when raising a new flag after a previous flag has been marked helpful, but not sure if anything should show if a previous flag was declined. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
On the flags page that Olin mentioned, all 3 flags show up, so they are not being lost, just not being announced on the post to the user who previously flagged. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
Just checked on the dev server: It doesn't give any indication that there is already a flag, and allows me to raise another. This applies immediately on the same tab, and also later if I open the same post in a fresh tab. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289236 |
That's really useful - thank you!
Perhaps there could be an indicator on an individual post that just says "flagged" and links to that page you mentioned. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289230 |
I like the idea of side by side input and preview, particularly for long posts which currently prevent seeing the preview and input at the same time.
However, I would want to make sure that the preview still works for narrow windows or zoomed in browsers. Even among people who have a widescreen m... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289230 |
There is already some use of a wider view: edit diffs in the post history have side by side comparison of before and after, and the page has no sidebar. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
In particular, we could let a user choose whether to be contactable by direct message, or only in public messages.
Direct messages create an additional moderation burden though, so I would want us to consider only allowing direct messages to moderators, with all other communication being public. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
It might help to also have more fine grained options: do I want to be contactable only in rooms I have already participated, or from any room? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
I recall SE chat only allowing pinging a user if they have been active in a recent period of time. If implementing it here, I'd prefer to have a user not contactable until they choose to opt in to chat, but then continue to be contactable indefinitely until they choose to opt out. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289200 |
In the same way that not everyone is on Discord, there may be people who do not want to be on our own chat system.
I'd like to see us implement a chat system, and remove the dependency on Discord, but I would still want it to be opt in. Not everyone who wants to participate in Q&A wants to be cont... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289202 |
This would be aligned with the way moderator flags are currently handled - you don't see which moderator handled it. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289202 |
The difference between Discord and a built in "contact a moderator" button is that on Discord you would be sending a direct message to a specific person who you know is a moderator, whereas the built in button would put you in touch with whichever moderator responds first. On Discord you would know w... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
The developer window has a tool for manually finding the colour value of whichever pixel your mouse is pointing at, but I don't know of an automated way to get all of the computed values at once.
Some of the tools for compiling to CSS, such as SASS and SCSS, allow seeing the CSS output which might... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
CSS filters are powerful (they can do far more than these simple adjustments) but I would want to think carefully before making them built in.
As a user script, browser compatibility is no problem because people it doesn't work for can simply not use it. If we made it built in we might break the s... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289173 |
When you say "finer-grained adjustment of the contrast" do you mean being able to set different contrast levels in different regions of the page? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288657 |
I was very tired when I posted that comment and completely overlooked that you might mean a suggested edit. Reading it now, being more awake, it's perfectly clear that "applied" means "approved" rather than "submitted for approval". Thanks for being understanding. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289058 |
I have no preference, just wanted to raise the question so both can be made how you want them at the same time (you plural, the mods) (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289058 |
Would you want the same behaviour for links that have a start date in the future? Do they currently stay in the "inactive" tab until the start date is reached? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288657 |
I'm very confused by this question. I was sure I had kept my time travel a secret. Could you rephrase to help my parsing? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289018 |
Thanks for the perspective. I appreciate that votes are difficult to interpret, particularly when the question seems to be also leaning towards an answer.
I suppose a large number of downvotes will probably also achieve the same as a large number of upvotes - more people will be likely to be curio... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289018 |
I can't speak for the downvoters. I don't know whether the objections are to the question or to the way it is phrased.
Personally I see this as an important question. Codidact exists to provide freedom from the conflicts of interest associated with profit driven organisations. Users publicly raisi... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
I'll make sure I focus more on the title and introduction from now on. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288974 |
The comment was all that was needed - it made sense and did help.
I wouldn't have known about mobile without your comment. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288974 |
Thanks for highlighting this. I've established that the problem only occurs in windows of width 780 pixels or more, and edited the post to make this clear. I've also added a screenshot so this post can make sense to mobile viewers. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
For future readers, note that this answer is to the initial bug report where I did not understand that the problem only occurs for some viewers, and I phrased the bug report in a way which made it sound like I was complaining about scroll bars.
Although I have now edited away the context, this ans... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
I absolutely agree that horizontal scroll bars are the solution. Thanks for highlighting that the title and opening paragraph suggested the opposite.
I have now edited to make the title mention the right hand panel, to mention in the first paragraph that scroll bars are a good thing, and added a s... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288976 |
If skimming through the post didn't look immediately awful, I'm wondering if you are viewing on mobile, where I've just been informed the problem does not exist. On desktop the expandable details section has a summary which is a code block stretching out and partly obscuring the right hand side panel... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287245 |
I should have reread my 9 month old post before responding to your comment. I've now spotted my earlier misunderstanding and edited to reflect your comment.
I raised the GitHub issue earlier today, with my current understanding, and forgot that my understanding 9 months ago when I wrote this post ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287245 |
Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate the difference. The bug is not that there is title text, but that the title text is applied to the container instead of the element. It just needs to be made more specific.
Hovering over "1.1k" and seeing "1063" makes perfect sense.
Hovering near the sor... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287837 |
For me, a duplicate flag with empty Details section is submitted successfully (and shows up to a moderator) in my local development environment, but is rejected with a red message "Details are required for this flag type - please enter at least 15 characters" on the dev server. Both are using the lat... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288896 |
Thanks for explaining. With priviliges and abilities being two separate things, it might be worth making the separation more definite. The screenshot in this answer exclusively uses "privileges" in the Roles section, and "abilities" in the Recalc Abilities section, but the screenshots in the question... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
At some point I got a persistent zero (persisting until I manually refreshed the page) but haven't seen it since (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
Somewhere in trying to work out the steps to reproduce this I also ended up with a blue notification circle with a zero in it, but I haven't been able to make that happen again. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287765 |
I am. Steps to reproduce:
1. Open this page in 2 tabs.
2. Mark your top notification as unread.
3. Close the notification panel and see the blue notification circle.
3. Switch to the other tab and click on the unread notification.
4. Switch back to the first tab and see the blue notification cir... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288858 |
I like this approach. I also enjoy overthinking, so I'm not best placed to judge whether it's more than we need, so I'm interested to see what others think.
Since we already have at least 1 other instance, and possibly more we don't know about, committing to not breaking existing behaviour without... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288828 |
The [answer explaining why we shouldn't do this](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/288828/288834#answer-288834) has plenty of upvotes (including mine) so I'm pretty sure we're safe from this happening. I have been thoroughly convinced that my suggestion is a bad idea... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288834 |
The post you link to discusses questions, rather than answers, which makes me realize what I was overlooking:
An answerer will generally put `--` inside a code block or inline code, so it won't get converted, but someone asking a question is less likely to know to do this, so we can't rely on it.
... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
That's one difference with Codidact - there is no voting on comments. There is only voting on posts (questions/answers/articles). The [reputation per vote is adjustable though](https://software.codidact.com/posts/288728). (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
We have a [community called Collab for people working on the software behind Codidact](https://collab.codidact.org/categories/56). It's not the test community you're asking about, but it can help with setting up a local development instance of the software which would allow you to try out whatever yo... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
To post the previous comment, which contains triple backticks inside a code block, you can use quadruple backticks to wrap it as shown below (which uses quintuple backticks to allow showing the quadruple backticks):
`````text
````text
Example triple backticks inside a code block:
```text
some
... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
You can see how someone achieved a given format in a post by pressing "Suggest Edit" to see the raw markdown, but since you can't edit other people's comments, here's the raw markdown for the previous comment's formatting:
````text
You can also use `inline code`, [links](https://meta.codidact.com... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288826 |
You can also use `inline code`, [links](https://meta.codidact.com/help/formatting "Post formatting help"), **bold**, *italics*,
```text
code blocks
for multiple lines
```
> quote blocks
> for, uh, quotes
- bullet
- points
1. numbered
1. lists
> quote blocks containing
> - bulle... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
Just to highlight this in case any downvoters see this as a reason to retract a downvote. I can't know the reason for downvotes, but the animation seemed like the worst thing about the linked question so I thought I'd mention it here where objectors might see it. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288816 |
I agree we need to do something, but I would recommend a solution built into the site rather than a rule that takes up moderator time to enforce. Whether the decision is to ban animation altogether, or to allow users to opt in or out of seeing them, the site should enforce this so users do not have t... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288797 |
I wonder if "Not here (use new site)" might be better, so that mobile users see "Not here (use new" which gives more of a hint that there's something new to look out for. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288797 |
On mobile (at least on mine) it now says "Don't post here (use" which at least should make someone more likely to stop and read the category description. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288743 |
Sounds right. Where I have the Edit Posts ability I see "Edit" as expected, so it does seem to be a wiki thing. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |